Architecture is for the benefit of communities, the enjoyment of a successful space is not only for the people living inside that space.

As developer, a land owner could think that built a poorly designed building could be a better investment and, unfortunately, in some cases he might be right, particularly inn a short term vision. Where the need of office spaces is very high you might not have good gain in investing in good design.

The middle-ages architecture has been called ‘junk architecture’ a few decades ago, because the buildings were mostly constructed without any plan, no references, no cohesiveness. Today these places are justifiably celebrated as a rich emotional environment and ‘cultural’ heritage.

Architects have the obligation of understanding spaces and how people live in these!

Building are not object dropped into the landscape or a city. Any designed object is part of a big picture: the environment we are living in, i.e. natural environment, built environment, social relations....

Design is part of the process to build. How can you give an abstract value to it? how can you prioritize it? I could understand a quality-led process vs a quick design building, but the design, whether thorough or not, is part of the process.